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A Real Time Web Based Electronic Triage, Resource Allocation And Hospital Dispatch System For Emergency Response, Venkata Srihari Inampudi
A Real Time Web Based Electronic Triage, Resource Allocation And Hospital Dispatch System For Emergency Response, Venkata Srihari Inampudi
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Disasters are characterized by large numbers of victims and required resources, overwhelming the available resources. Disaster response involves various entities like Incident Commanders, dispatch centers, emergency operations centers, area command and hospitals. An effective emergency response system should facilitate coordination between these various entities. Victim triage, emergency resource allocation and victim dispatch to hospitals form an important part of an emergency response system. In this present research effort, an emergency response system with the aforementioned components is developed.
Triage is the process of prioritizing mass casualty victims based on severity of injuries. The system presented in this thesis is a …